Quantizations of Flag Manifolds and Conformal Space Time

Abstract

In this paper we work out the deformations of some flag manifolds and of complex Minkowski space viewed as an affine big cell inside G(2,4). All the deformations come in tandem with a coaction of the appropriate quantum group. In the case of the Minkowski space this allows us to define the quantum conformal group. We also give two involutions on the quantum complex Minkowski space, that respectively define the real Minkowski space and the real euclidean space. We also compute the quantum De Rham complex for both real (complex) Minkowski and euclidean space.